{"id":4359,"date":"2016-12-01T12:33:01","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T17:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ackc.org\/?p=4359"},"modified":"2016-12-01T12:39:20","modified_gmt":"2016-12-01T17:39:20","slug":"federal-funding-for-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ackc.org\/jayedit\/federal-funding-for-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Funding for Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Georgia; color: #333333;\">We did an analysis of the U.S Federal funding for the top 18 cancer types as a ratio of dollars spent versus the cancer type\u2019s incidence and mortality rates.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Georgia; color: #333333;\">For dollars spent per incidence, brain cancer came out on top at $7,686 per incidence, followed by ovarian ($5,010) and leukemia ($4,545). Kidney cancer was in 14<sup>th<\/sup><span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>place at $613 per incidence. For dollars spent per mortality, breast cancer came out on top at $15,842 per mortality with melanoma ($13,526), brain ($12,548), and thyroid ($12,207) ranking 2<sup>nd<\/sup>-4<sup>th<\/sup>. Kidney cancer ranked 12<sup>th<\/sup><span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>at $2,827.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Georgia; color: #333333;\">For Federal funding we used the National Cancer Institute and the Department of Defense\u2019s Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs for the latest year that both department\u2019s funding amounts were available (2014) and used incidence and mortality rates for that year. See<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ackc.org\/federal-funding-for-the-top-18-cancer-types\/\"><em><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; color: blue;\">Funding<\/span><\/em><\/a><span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>for the results for the top 18 cancer types.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We did an analysis of the U.S Federal funding for the top 18 cancer types as a ratio of dollars spent versus the cancer type\u2019s incidence and mortality rates.\u00a0 For dollars spent per incidence, brain cancer came out on top at $7,686 per incidence, followed by ovarian ($5,010) and leukemia ($4,545). Kidney cancer was in 14th\u00a0place at $613 per incidence. For dollars spent per mortality, breast cancer came out on top at $15,842 per mortality&#8230; <a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ackc.org\/jayedit\/federal-funding-for-cancer\/\">More \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ackc.org\/jayedit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ackc.org\/jayedit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ackc.org\/jayedit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ackc.org\/jayedit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ackc.org\/jayedit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4359"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ackc.org\/jayedit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4364,"href":"https:\/\/www.ackc.org\/jayedit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4359\/revisions\/4364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ackc.org\/jayedit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ackc.org\/jayedit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ackc.org\/jayedit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}